The answer, for those of you coming here from my Facebook question, is the third response. For extra points, what is the country due east of Iraq?

I was looking at a video from CNN and was struck by my uneasiness in remembering the where Iraq, Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan were geographically in relation to each other. How could I have been watching the news for the last news and not have mastered this by now?

We saw Hugo last night: Go see this wonderful film that is good because:

Great story

Homage to great films of the past

Steam Punk images make great subjects for 3D photography.

Historical accuracy.

On that latter point, here from Wikipedia, is the backstory:

The overall backstory and primary features of Georges Méliès' life as depicted in the film are largely accurate: he did become interested in film after seeing a demonstration of the Lumière brothers' camera, he was magician and toymaker, he experimented with automata, he did own a theatre (Theatre Robert-Houdin), he was forced into bankruptcy, his film stock was reportedly melted down for its cellulose, he became a toy salesman at the Montparnasse station, and he was eventually awarded the Légion d'honneur (Legion of honor) medal after a period of terrible neglect. Many of the early silent films shown in the movie are Méliès' actual works such as Le voyage dans la lune.